Education

Areas of Expertise

Democratic theory, public opinion, electoral behavior in democratic societies, political psychology with special interest on the role of emotions in politics, philosophies of science and methodology, as well as political tolerance, appraisal of candidates, dynamics of electoral campaigns, and other aspects of political psychology.

Scholarship/Creative Work

John L. Sulllivan, James Piereson, and George E. Marcus, Political Tolerance and American Democracy, 1982, Chicago University Press. Selected as the 2006 Philip A. Converse Outstanding Book by the Elections, Public Opinion, and Voting Behavior Section of APSA.

George E. Marcus, John L. Sullivan, Elizabeth Theiss-Morse, and Sandra Wood, With Malice Toward Some: How People Make Civil Liberties Judgments, 1995. Cambridge University Press. Selected as the best book published in 1995 in the field of political psychology by the Political Psychology Section of the American Political Science Association.

George E. Marcus, W. Russell Neuman, and Michael MacKuen, Affective Intelligence and Political Judgment. 2000. University of Chicago Press.

George E. Marcus, The Sentimental Citizen: Emotion in Democratic Politics. 2002, Penn State University Press. French language edition published in 2007.

George E. Marcus. “The Enduring Dilemma of Political Tolerance in American Political History.” Chapter in The State of Democracy in America, William Crotty (Ed.), 2001, Georgetown University Press.

Ted Brader, George E. Marcus, and Kristyn L. Miller, 2011,“Emotion and Public Opinion.” Chapter in Oxford Handbook of American Public Opinion and Media, Larry Jacobs and Robert Y. Shapiro (Eds.), Oxford University Press.

George E. Marcus. “Reason, Passion, and Democratic Politics: Old Conceptions – New Understandings – New Possibilities.” In Nomos LIII: Passions and Emotions, ed. James E. Fleming. 2012. New York: New York University Press.

George E. Marcus, Political Psychology: Neuroscience, Genetics and Politics. 2012. New York: Oxford University Press.

Ted Brader and George E. Marcus, “Emotion and Political Psychology.” 2013. Chapter in Oxford Handbook of Political Psychology, 2nd Edition. David Sears, Leonie Huddy, and Jack Levy (Eds.). Oxford University Press.

Stanley Feldman, Leonie Huddy, and George E. Marcus, Going to War in Iraq: When People and the Press Matter. 2015. Chicago: Chicago University Press.

Awards, Fellowships & Grants

Various grants from the National Science Foundation, the National Endowment for the Humanities, Carnegie, Ford, Sloan, and Rockefeller Foundations (among others).

Professional Affiliations

American Political Science Association

Midwest Political Science Association

International Society of Political Psychology

Professional Experience

Post-doctoral Fellow, Yale Program in Psychology and Politics (1970-71);

Co-Founder and Co-editor, Political Methodology (1974-1985);

Director of the Public Opinion Program for Journalists (1984 – 1989);

Editorial Board, Political Analysis (1988 – 1990);

Executive Director of the International Society of Political Psychology (1992 – 1996); Vice President (2000-2004); President (2005-2006); Councillor (2010-2015)

1995 National Election Studies Pilot Planning Committee;

Board of Directors, The Roper Center (1980 – 2008); Vice-chair of the Board (1999-2005); Chairman of the Board (2006-2008)